Extracts from Lafcadio Hearn's Letters

Extracts from Lafcadio Hearn's letters to Basil Hall Chamberlain, Professor of Japanese Language at the Imperial University of Tokyo.

(i) - The Japanese and individual personality -

(ii) -Japanese appearance and reality -

(iii) - The Japanese and Christianity -

(iv) - Lafcadio's method of working -

(v) - A journey in Kyushu; a dream of Urashima -

(vi) - A day in Lafcadio's life -

(vii) - Lafcadio's experiences of ghosts -

(viii) - Dissatisfaction in Kumamoto -

(ix) - East/West contrasts in Kobe -

(x) - Westerners in the East -

(xi) - Speculations on morality; Kumamoto again -